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Predicting threats to food security

Feb 22, 2023

Impact at a glance:Forecasting wheat rust disease to enable up to 500,000 smallholder farmers in Ethiopia to take timely preventative action. Predicting the spread of, and control options for, cassava...

Roadmap sets out new global strategy for development of more effective coronavirus vaccines

Feb 22, 2023

A global strategy is launched today to coordinate the complex research activities necessary for a new approach to coronavirus vaccine development. The Coronavirus Vaccines Research and Development Roadmap (CVR) is...

US believes Russia had failed intercontinental ballistic missile test around when Biden was in Ukraine

Feb 22, 2023

CNN —Russia carried out a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have failed around the time President Joe Biden was in Ukraine on Monday, according to two...

Where do stolen bikes go?

Feb 22, 2023

Where do all the stolen bikes go? It turns out that, at least in Amsterdam, the vast majority of stolen bikes remain in the local area. If they’re stolen and...

Five hours in Kyiv: Biden upstages Putin ahead of dueling speeches on anniversary of Russian invasion

Feb 21, 2023

“This was a risk that Joe Biden wanted to take,” said White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield. “This is the largest land war in Europe in three-quarters of a century,...

Putin’s historic speech suffers mystery BLACKOUT across Russia as state TV channels go down ‘after huge hack’

Feb 21, 2023

VLADIMIR Putin's speech suffered a mass blackout as Russian state TV channels were reportedly hit with a huge hack attack. The deluded dictator, 70, delivered his state-of-the-nation address to Russia...

One-year mark of Ukraine invasion looms large over Biden’s Poland trip

Feb 21, 2023

© Evan Vucci/AP President Biden gives a speech in Poland in March 2022, about a month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In past weeks, the White House has told...

Democratizing education: Bringing MIT excellence to the masses

Feb 21, 2023

How do you quantify the value of education or measure success? Thanks to the MIT-conceived MicroMasters-style format, SDS faculty director Professor Devavrat Shah and his colleagues have eliminated the physical...

Nine in ten major metropolitan areas in Europe lost population because of COVID-19 pandemic

Feb 20, 2023

This sudden shock was especially pronounced in Europe’s largest 66 metropolitan areas (cities with 500,000 inhabitants and above). Almost all experienced a drop in population growth rates. Dr Wolff explains,...

What is Marburg virus and should we be worried?

Feb 20, 2023

There has been an epidemic outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea for the first time. An epidemic outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa, was confirmed this...